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The court system in Umbra Ac Silentium has ground to a halt since the record-breaking divorce case of serial-polygamist Matt Trimony, who has decided to divorce all 47 of his wives simultaneously. The case has become so lengthy and complex that lawyer-filled encampments have sprung up outside the building, preventing any new cases from being processed.
The Debate

"The courts just can't cope with the strain," warns Evan Brown, your trusted legal advisor. "Divorce cases have become so complex that lawyers now have to take courses in complex mathematics just to settle property disputes! If this continues any longer, our legal system is going to collapse. The best solution would be to make prenuptial agreements mandatory for all new marriages. That would free up the courts from dealing with complex property disputes once and for all."

"This is sacrilege!" exclaims Reverend Ryan Thiesen, bursting into your office without warning. "It was a mistake to legalize polygamy to begin with! It's made a mockery of the sanctity of marriage. I implore the government to repeal this perversion of matrimony and make polygamy illegal throughout Umbra Ac Silentium - if not for the sake of the families it has torn apart, then for their very souls under the eyes of our great Lord."

"I've got a better idea," claims renowned TV critic Ella Frederickson, sprawling paperwork across your desk. "You want to keep polygamy legal, but don't want to pay through the nose in legal fees, right? Why not broadcast the divorce proceedings live across Dreamworld? Think of the drama! Think of the viewing figures! Just sign here on the dotted line, and the studio will cover all the expenses." She forces a pen into your hand.

Issue by: The Mischievous Meerkats of Lordieth
Editor: Lenyo

Issue #336
Author: Lordieth
Ed: Lenyo

Polygamy Causes Division

The Issue

The court system in Industrien has ground to a halt since the record-breaking divorce case of serial-polygamist Matt Trimony, who has decided to divorce all 47 of his wives simultaneously. The case has become so lengthy and complex that lawyer-filled encampments have sprung up outside the building, preventing any new cases from being processed.

The Debate

"The courts just can't cope with the strain," warns Jessica Mistletoe, your trusted legal advisor. "Divorce cases have become so complex that lawyers now have to take courses in complex mathematics just to settle property disputes! If this continues any longer, our legal system is going to collapse. The best solution would be to make prenuptial agreements mandatory for all new marriages. That would free up the courts from dealing with complex property disputes once and for all."

"This is sacrilege!" exclaims Reverend Don Clinton, bursting into your office without warning. "It was a mistake to legalize polygamy to begin with! It's made a mockery of the sanctity of marriage. I implore the government to repeal this perversion of matrimony and make polygamy illegal throughout Industrien - if not for the sake of the families it has torn apart, then for their very souls under the eyes of our great Lord."

"I've got a better idea," claims renowned TV critic Faith Suzuki, sprawling paperwork across your desk. "You want to keep polygamy legal, but don't want to pay through the nose in legal fees, right? Why not broadcast the divorce proceedings live across the South Pacific? Think of the drama! Think of the viewing figures! Just sign here on the dotted line, and the studio will cover all the expenses." She forces a pen into your hand.

Vasilly wrote:Really? i played this game for 1 year and I have seen the same issues again and again

sometimes i said: of fuck it! and delete all the issues

Umbra Ac Silentium wrote:

The court system in Umbra Ac Silentium has ground to a halt since the record-breaking divorce case of serial-polygamist Matt Trimony, who has decided to divorce all 47 of his wives simultaneously. The case has become so lengthy and complex that lawyer-filled encampments have sprung up outside the building, preventing any new cases from being processed.
The Debate

"The courts just can't cope with the strain," warns Evan Brown, your trusted legal advisor. "Divorce cases have become so complex that lawyers now have to take courses in complex mathematics just to settle property disputes! If this continues any longer, our legal system is going to collapse. The best solution would be to make prenuptial agreements mandatory for all new marriages. That would free up the courts from dealing with complex property disputes once and for all."

"This is sacrilege!" exclaims Reverend Ryan Thiesen, bursting into your office without warning. "It was a mistake to legalize polygamy to begin with! It's made a mockery of the sanctity of marriage. I implore the government to repeal this perversion of matrimony and make polygamy illegal throughout Umbra Ac Silentium - if not for the sake of the families it has torn apart, then for their very souls under the eyes of our great Lord."

"I've got a better idea," claims renowned TV critic Ella Frederickson, sprawling paperwork across your desk. "You want to keep polygamy legal, but don't want to pay through the nose in legal fees, right? Why not broadcast the divorce proceedings live across Dreamworld? Think of the drama! Think of the viewing figures! Just sign here on the dotted line, and the studio will cover all the expenses." She forces a pen into your hand.

Issue by: The Mischievous Meerkats of Lordieth
Editor: Lenyo

Issue number 336 right here.
I'm kind of scared to pick the last option to keep it legal because it sounds highly invasive of privacy and I don't want to damage muh freedumz. :v

The Issue

In response to an increasing number of people without adequate health care in @@NATIONNAME@@, a neighbouring nation within @@REGION@@ has publicly sought permission to establish free health clinics.

The Debate

"Well isn't this quite the blessing!" exclaims Agnes Broadside, one of your chief economic advisers. "Not only does foreign money come into our economy, those darned socialists will stop complaining about how badly the poor are suffering. Best of all, we don't even have to spend a single @@CURRENCY@@ on it! We could even charge an establishment fee for each clinic and help ourselves to the proceeds."

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"How dare those bleeding heart foreigners make us look like a Third World Nation!" declares Klaus Gutenberg, the maintenance man in your office as he fixes your mini-bar. "They want to waltz on into OUR COUNTRY and make US look like the bad guys, just so they can have the spotlight. They don't actually care about the poor! Speaking of the poor, if they don't have to pay for things like health care then what incentive is there to find work? It's just reinforcing the culture of dependency and laziness that exists among some in the working class. Charity should just be banned, frankly; if you didn't work for it, you don't deserve it."

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"We can't allow ourselves to be shamed like this in front of the global community, or our own people for that matter", your bedraggled Minister for Health tells you. "We should take this as a sign that it's finally time for us to devote resources to the health budget and establish a universal health care system. It may be costly in the beginning but it'll save us much in the long run, and not just in terms of lotis - think of how much face we'll save in the international community by implementing this instead of asking others to do it for us. I can't see a loss to this!"

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The Issue

A large, silent mass of people have staged a sit-in around the government buildings in @@CAPITAL@@ to protest noise pollution.

The Debate

The leader of the protest, Sy Lance, slips a handwritten letter across your desk. It reads: "The noise level in this city has become simply unbearable. I cannot walk down the street without having my delicate auditory faculties assaulted! For the sake of @@NATIONNAME@@'s hearing, you must enact stricter noise pollution laws. I implore you!"

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"WHAT?! YOU WANT TO BAN NOISE?! WELL, SOME OF US AREN'T OVERSENSITIVE! WE LIKE NOISE!" bellows a local construction worker. "I DON'T BUST MY HUMP WORKING DAY IN AND DAY OUT JUST TO HAVE THESE SISSIES TELL ME I NEED TO KEEP IT DOWN! WE DEMAND THE RIGHT TO MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AS WE WANT, WHATEVER THE TIME, WHEREVER THE PLACE!"

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HC Eredivisie wrote:341:

Where in the Woods is Cindy SanFrancisco?

The Issue

Pear Industries, one of @@NAME@@'s largest consumer electronics companies, wishes to bring a lawsuit against a small technology firm for making use of a piece of electronics they developed. The smaller firm is imploring the government to maintain its recent anti-copyright laws, which they claim legally extend to patents.

The Debate

"Patents are simply a tool for large companies to abuse entrepreneurs and the consumer!" argues small-time inventor and part-time champagne socialist, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "They use their huge legal departments to muscle out any smaller company that might 'pose a threat'. The government's ban of patents gave us all access to the advances those fat-cats have been sitting on all these years. You want to throw that all away so some guy can add a few more zeros to the end of his bank account?"

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"My team poured years of research and millions of @@CURRENCY@@s into developing this component," claims Pear's dressed-down CEO, Steve Tasks. "It's our blood, sweat and tears that led to this breakthrough. You must allow companies greater claim over their discoveries. We need patents. We need copyrights. They are the incentive that keeps inventors inventing. Reinstate patents and copyrights or @@NAME@@'s research will come to a stand-still and our country a technological backwater devoid of any semblance of innovation."

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"The only thing that's clear from this is that SCIENCE isn't getting enough funding," grumbles eminent, if notoriously disaffected, physicist @@RANDOMNAME@@. "The only reason we have to spend so much effort protecting our discoveries is because we're so worried about where our next paycheck is coming from. If the government opened up its coffers to eager scientists, this whole debate would simply go away. Not to mention that government could lay claim to any particularly intriguing discoveries..."

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Riemstagrad wrote:340: Defending Patent Pending